| Ahead, along the lonely Stuart Highway, lay 900-plus miles of largely unrelieved emptiness all the way to Alice Springs, and beyond it, Uluru. |
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| It also promotes an appreciation of the spinifex and desert oak landscape that surrounds Uluru. |
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| See Uluru on a motorcycle, from the back of a camel or on a scenic helicopter flight. |
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| Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987, Uluru, is also remarkable for its religious and spiritual significance. |
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| Read their story in the ancient rock art and visit the Mutitjulu Waterhole, Kantju Gorge and Uluru Cultural Centre. |
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| Tons of companies cater to young, adventure-seeking travellers, especially in popular destinations such as Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef. |
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| Visit Uluru and you'll see why the rock and surrounding land have such huge spiritual significance for the Anangu Aboriginal people. |
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| We were really excited about this trip through the Outback from Alice Springs to Adelaide with a stop at Uluru. |
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| See Uluru from camel back, helicopter or motorbike, then walk around the base with an Anangu guide. |
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| See World Heritage-listed Uluru match the light and weather with colours so vivid they upstage the sunset. |
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| Lose your breath at Uluru, which rises 348 metres from the desert and matches the light and weather with shades so vivid they upstage the sunset. |
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| But Uluru, also called Ayers Rock, is the most popular monolith and is an icon for Australia. |
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| Watch the rising sun light Uluru on a dawn camel trek, then contemplate its majesty over a breakfast of billy tea and freshly baked beer bread. |
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| The couple will leave George in Canberra to travel to Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in the Outback. |
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| In Ayers Rock Resort I booked a place to fly over Uluru at sunset by helicopter. |
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| An enormous monolith of reddish sandstone, Uluru or Ayers Rock looks like a huge red pebble half-buried in the bed of a dried-up pond. |
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| Originally a telegraph station and now a touristic center and a classic starting point for excursions to Uluru. |
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| Walk around Uluru on the Mala or Mutitjulu Walk with an Anangu guide and learn about how Dreamtime ancestors forged this huge sandstone icon. |
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| For many Europeans, Australia sounds like the end of the world, full of great wonders: Sydney's Opera house, the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru? |
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| Two of these sites, Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef, received sufficient support to take them through to stage two of the campaign. |
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| As a national icon, Bondi is in the same league as the opera house and Uluru. |
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| From April, Field of Light will illuminate another Australian icon – Uluru. |
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| The winds are notoriously gusty and unpredictable on Uluru, and the local helicopter services provide us with continual updates so that we can make quality assessments. |
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| The traditional Aboriginal Music Sticks were brought down from Uluru, a song was played and the sticks were passed between the non-indigenous and indigenous people. |
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| It's at Erldunda that you quit the Stuart Highway to head to the most famous rock of Australia: Uluru. |
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| From Sydney, see Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road, then fly to Uluru. |
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| Soon it''s time to get back on the road and drive the 350km stretch to Uluru, or Ayers Rock. |
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| A few days earlier, members of the stolen generations gathered at Uluru, the great Central Australian rock. |
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| See Uluru rise 348 metres from the desert in the deep centre of Australia, matching the light and weather with hues so vivid they upstage the sunset. |
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| The Chair of the Uluru Kata Tjuta Joint Management Board and representative of the Anangu people, Jo Willmot, attended Hemi Kingi's funeral in Tongariro. |
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| Other National Landscapes include the Great Barrier Reef and the Red Centre, the country's desert center and home to the famous rock formation Uluru. |
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| The royal couple will fly to Yulara, a town close to Uluru, to visit the National Indigenous Training Academy, which helps to train those living near the world heritage site to work in the tourism and hospitality trades. |
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| But how could one explain that no aboriginal people is employed by the big hotel city of Yulara, created for the tourists visitng Uluru, which hosts each year at least 500 000 visitors? |
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| See Uluru from camel back, helicopter or motorbike. |
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| Over 318 metres high, 9.4 kilometres in circumference and extending 6 kilometres below the ground's surface, the remarkable geological compositions of Uluru ensures that it will remain a relic of our nation. |
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| It's at Uluru and nearby Kata Tjuta, an independent journey some 300 miles southeast of Alice Springs, that the true wonder of Australia's heart is most keenly felt. |
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| Uluru, an immense monolith, and Kata Tjuta, the rock domes located west of Uluru, form part of the traditional belief system of one of the oldest human societies in the world. |
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